Friday, October 28, 2011

If Muslims volunteer to attend a Roman Catholic university and don't like to be surrounded by symbols of Roman Catholicism, well, as we say in Atlanta, "Delta's ready when you are."

The next time a Muslim complains about crucifixes at a Roman Catholic institution, some Roman Catholic should take a Muslim head - blasphemy works both ways, after all. Complaints would immediately cease.

This won't happen, of course. They have cultural confidence, while we have nothing but multiculturalism and diversity - handmaidens of cultural suicide.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The Won, either desperate for reelection or displaying the "smart diplomacy" we heard about, has managed to get us kicked out of Iraq. Forty four hundred lives, tens of thousands of wounded, and it's about to all be pissed away.

There's a reason we're still in Germany and Japan, 60+ years after WWII: We steadied them as they grew their democratic institutions. Poor Iraq won't get the same help. The likely outcome is Saudi Arabia appeals to Iraq's Sunnis, and Iran appeals to its Shi'ites, and between them they tear the country apart. Maybe Turkey takes advantage of that to finally solve its Kurdish problem.

In the meantime, having "led from behind", Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia will likely see Islamist governments. Oh, and Egypt will likely see famine to boot. Goodbye Copts: Egypt's Muslim majority will vent its rage and fear on you. Egypt has lost control of the Sinai, but I'm sure al Shabaab will fill that particular vacuum.

The bottom line here is that The Won is completing the screwing of the Middle East that Jimmy Carter started back in 1979. If that area avoids a major war, it'll be by complete dumb luck.

Monday, October 17, 2011

It appears the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is working to hide documents that are subject to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a scam. The more light that's shone on the actors, the more they scuttle away, like cockroaches looking for rocks to hide under. Look at Algore. Having sated himself on the offerings of dupes and cynics, he's dragged his bloated carcass to his tacky California Shangri La.

People who profess to be AGW believers are dupes at best; at worst, they're power-seeking cynics.

I was down at Everybody's Pizza yesterday afternoon. Across the road was a single smelly know-it-all hippie, holding up a sign that said "Occupy USA."

The dozens of Emory types facing him, sipping their lattes and beers, eating their pizza and tacos, watched on. Even the kid with the gold hammer and sickle on his red Macbook Pro (Which, what's up with that?) (Yay, capitalism!) just sat back and did nothing.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

The first big system I ever developed, CTAPS, was done in C and SQL on a MicroVAX III running Ultrix. We even had GKS to display maps and allow for very crude airspace deconfliction.

Anyway, having been working in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX 11/782 running VMS 4.7, it was such a pleasure to have utilities like sed, awk, make, grep, cut, vi, ctags, etc., along with the UNIX pipe-and-filter approach to attaching them. Working as I did on both MS/DOS and UNIX operating systems, I can't begin to tell you how many times I loaded a file into vi and issued the command ":1,$s/^M//g".

As for the C programming language itself, well, after FORTRAN it was like I had died and gone to heaven.

I seem to recall that Vernor Vinge has a couple of science fiction books set hundreds of years in the future that reference nano-computers that run, yes, UNIX. I believe it likely.

From here, we see that about 36% of government workers are unionized, as are about 7% of private-sector workers. Total union membership is about 14 million people out of a US working population of about 140 million people. (Of course, The Won's disastrous policies have inspired an ongoing economic depression that may have changed these figures a bit, but since the Attorney General of the US can't remember shipping machine guns to Mexican narco-terrorists, I'll take these figures as good enough for government work.)

Small minority that they are, American unions are nonetheless a powerful shakedown mechanism for funding the Democrat party. This is why union-sponsored street theater will always have Democrat support.

In this case, however, something else is going on. Wall Street is fleeing The Won. The Chicago Way is not to let them go, but rather to send in thugs to make them see the light. This is why we're seeing protests, and this is why The Won approves.

A thought occurrs. If a CBS reporter is starting to report on the criminal wrongdoings in The Won's regime, does this mean the fourth estate is about to start vetting The Won? Five years too late, obviously. But still, better late than never.